Tectonics 2025 Artist Profile

Jennifer Torrence
Jennifer Torrence is a percussionist/performer, composer, curator, and artistic researcher based in Oslo, Norway. Originally from the United States, she has performed and taught in a variety of contexts across the entire globe, and this appearance at Tectonics is her Scottish debut. Much of her work is built upon extended collaborative processes with composers and artists from various experimental practices and traditions. In addition to solo and collaborative projects she is a member of the Norwegian ensemble, Pinquins.
Her artistic research has focused on the intersection of percussion/performance and topics such as the body, collaboration, precariousness, queerness, and an “expanded field” of music. Jennifer is Associate Professor II of percussion at the Norwegian Academy of Music where she also performs artistic and pedagogical research. She is also a percussion tutor at Darmstadt.
For more information see www.jennifertorrence.com